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Nvidia Lauds Windows CE Over Android For Smartbooks
ericatcw writes "Google's Android may enjoy the hype, but an increasing number of key industry players say the mobile OS isn't ready for ARM netbooks, aka smartbooks. Nvidia is the most recent to declare Android unfit for duty, stating its preference for Microsoft's Windows CE, which an Nvidia exec praised for having a "low footprint" and being "rock solid." Nvidia is busy optimizing its multimedia-savvy Tegra system-on-chip for Windows CE. Such improvements won't arrive for at least a year to Android, which has an inflexible UI and poor graphics support for devices larger than a smartphone, says Nvidia. Other firms echoing similar criticism include ARM and Asustek."
If NVidia does not want a piece of Android business, it is NVidia's loss.
And AMD/ATI gain.
My money is on the Linux community figuring out how to incorporate NVidia support into Android with or without NVidia's corporate blessing. Heck, a few of NVidia engineers belong to Linux community too.
Nvidia is also trying to get someone in their corner for the upcoming fight against Intel during their licensing and patent wars. Good news for VIA and anyone else not stuck in the battle of monopolies.
Chrome is not written in Java
Thank you for this sir.
Google gives you Java (for App Store), but their own applications run native code? Google enjoys the power of native code and you are left with Java, so you are a second rate Java developer from day 1 on Android ? Google is more insulting to developers that Microsoft or Apple ever were.
Windows CE runs native, the portability point is pretty invalid. Also on iPhone I have proper GCC/G++ compilers, I do not have to rewrite everything to some other language. Google should do the same as Apple and give us GCC, Java should be optional not mandatory.
And you can distribute and install whatever Java code you want
OK, some people do not have a time to rewrite their applications to some interpreted language.. Windows CE and iPhone are perfectly fine platforms regarding this, they run native code no problem and you can deploy that code in the App Store.
You linux folk should be grateful for the fact that they release a driver at all. It's not like they get any return for creating a driver that allows a handful of people to run a hardware accelerated compiz desktops. Until linux becomes a viable platform for the desktop (which it never will be, because of flawed ideologies), be thankful for any corporate *desktop* support you get.
Similes are like metaphors
In other news Nvidia executives praised windows vista as "the bestest OS ever!" and inconspicuously stuffed away protruding wads of cash in their pockets while a winking Steve Ballmer gave them a thumbs-up from the corner of the room.